Analysis of L'Envoi
Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
_The Return of the Sire de Nesle._
A.D. 16
My towers at last! These rovings end,
Their thirst is slaked in larger dearth:
The yearning infinite recoils,
For terrible is earth.
Kaf thrusts his snouted crags through fog:
Araxes swells beyond his span,
And knowledge poured by pilgrimage
Overflows the banks of man.
But thou, my stay, thy lasting love
One lonely good, let this but be!
Weary to view the wide world's swarm,
But blest to fold but thee.
Scheme | XX XAXA XBXB XCXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101101011 1 110111101 11110101 01010001 110011 1111111 110111 01011100 100111 11111101 11011111 10110111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 443 |
Words | 84 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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